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The new Regulatory Consistency Communication Board has been tasked with addressing concerns about policy and regulation inconsistencies

A new plane, a new season and lots of reasons to go gaga over planes. There’s been so much noise politically in aviation these past few months that we’ve been so busy protecting our freedom to fly against some very real threats that it’s been too easy to forget the flying part, which is, after […]

Human pilots think they’re great flyers. They should check out what ravens can do.

A sacred mission for a pilot and his Cessna 185 in Venezuela

NASA study finds significant difference between biofuel and traditional jet fuel emissions

President Trump’s budget proposal threatens the lifeblood of General Aviation. Over the past couple of days, the general aviation community has responded to a common threat to our way of flight. Earlier this week President Trump issued his budget, and while there is no shortage of controversy associated with it, for those of us who […]

One researcher thinks we should start round landing ’€œstrips’€ tomorrow and says he has the research to prove it’s a great idea

In fear of losing funding for this critical cog in GA’s infrastructure, advocates gear up to get the message out that we need our towers

Fun facts about propellers

Like most of you, I think of avgas in a very one-dimensional way, regarding our old true blue 100LL as the only aviation gasoline, at least until a 100LL alternative hits the pumps in a few years. But it turns out that’s not really true. There’s another approved aviation fuel for sale today, Swift Fuels’ […]